Turkey is at an existential crossroads
The wonderful Barbara Kingsolver wrote that hope is something you should not admire from a distance, but rather live inside…
What is so special about heavy metal?
Ever since my early youth I have loved, followed and respected a certain music genre that some people consider strange,…
Gone for a song: A short story
A short story
A diamond set in sapphires
I was a young, aspiring writer when I decided to leave everything behind and move to Istanbul more than two…
A diamond set in sapphires
I was a young, aspiring writer when I decided to leave everything behind and move to Istanbul more than two…
What makes Turkey tick
I remember an American author once saying she wrote about love and friendship because, after all, these were the fundamental…
Turkey’s continental drift
In Turkish the word ‘yurt’ has two definitions. It means ‘place’, ‘land’, ‘territory’, ‘homeland’. It could also indicate a round,…
Sleepless by the strait
In my novel Three Daughters of Eve, a well educated housewife with kids looks at her motherland, Turkey, and thinks:…
